In Inês F. Oliveira’s touching coming-of-age novel "Calvin and the Sugar Apples", a girl struggles with changes in her life. Ten-year-old Amelia is having a rough time. Plagued by self-doubt, she’s at odds with her best friend,... Read More

An eleven-year-old girl with a magical link to a water spirit confronts her destiny in the graphic novel "Kariba". Siku, discovered as a baby in a secret area of the Zambezi River, has the power to manipulate water. Her abilities... Read More

Maurice Hornocker’s exciting memoir covers his long quest to understand and protect Idaho’s apex predator—the elusive cougar. Based on his years of groundbreaking field studies and research for his doctoral dissertation, this book... Read More

An artist and inspector are on a mission to recover a stolen painting in Rebecca Anderson’s Victorian romance novel "The Art of Love and Lies". Rosanna is a masterful forger—though she prefers calling her paintings reproductions.... Read More

Laura Yares’s "Jewish Sunday Schools" is a complex survey of Jewish immigrant religious education that notes its influence on society. The book details the concerns of early nineteenth-century Jewish American communities regarding the... Read More

With a mix of scientific and insider perspectives, sociologist Andrew L. Whitehead’s "American Idolatry" is a fascinating investigation of politics and racism in American Christian evangelicalism. Using statistical data and stories... Read More

Belying its modest title, Joshua Winn’s "The Little Book of Exoplanets" is an extraordinary, far-reaching astronomy book that describes the exploration of planets outside our solar system. As this engaging book explains, more than five... Read More

Cat loves to go on adventures, but returning to his empty jungle bungalow grows lonely. He finds a friend in Fish, but as Fish shares her own heartaches, Cat is faced with a choice between keeping his friend and making her happy. An... Read More